Roubini, Nouriel
Summary: "Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true--when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats. From the worst debt crisis the world has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: "From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Math TetlockTambini, Michael.
Summary: Provides a speculative look ahead to the technological, environmental, and biological developments of the twenty-first century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 601 TAMHowe, Neil
Summary: Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they'd uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of a long human life, with each cycle composed of four eras--or "turnings"--that always arrive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4973 HOWYates, Kit
Summary: Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball? How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? How do you prevent a nuclear war? Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what's in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the annual conference where the world's brightest thinkers gather to discuss a better future; includes talks given by former Vice President Al Gore, Dr. Larry Brilliant, and Nicholas Negroponte.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FUTSummary: "NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists. The stars will change us. STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity's far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STESummary: A thriller set in the urban inferno of 1999 Los Angeles. Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares available on small disks that are viewable via a compact headpiece that makes every sensation immediate. Nero replays scenes of happier days with Faith Justin, who has run off with sadistic Philo Gant. As he attempts to win Faith back, he hooks up with an old friend, Lornette "Mace" Mason,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Commodities trader Gary Hobson (Kyle Chandler) is losing it: his job, his home, and his brilliant attorney wife. He thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news? While his best friend Chuck (Fisher Stevens) sees the newspaper as a ticket to personal gain, co-worker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EarlySummary: Final destination: While boarding for a cross-country flight with friends, Alex has a premonition of the plane crashing. When he causes a ruckus and gets kicked off the flight, he and his friends watch in horror as the plane crashes, but Alex and his friends learn that they were fated to die on board the airplane, a fate that hunts them down one-by-one. Final destination 2: A teen with mild...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FINGreen, Tim
Summary: Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: "The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.24 TALKlaas, Brian P. (Brian Paul)
Summary: A social scientist dispels people's tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: Klosterman "visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past, [asking] questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303 KLOMcGonigal, Jane
Summary: The future forecaster and game designer uses the most up-to-date psychological and neuroscience studies to show how to train the mind to conceive and imagine the unfathomable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 MCGTaleb, Nassim.
Summary: Not all swans are white, and not all events are predictable. Taleb shows that black swans, like 9/11, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact on the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 003.54 TALTaleb, Nassim.
Summary: Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 003.54 TalebTucker, Patrick
Summary: Discusses the impact the increased use of computer-aided forecasting will have on everyday life, cataloging the possible benefits and potential abuses of predictive analytics over the next decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014